Hidden inside infertile sit infertile and interfile, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 186 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
infertile and interfile tie for the highest Scrabble score from infertile at 12 points. The top 10 of 186 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in infertile: one comes from rearranging its letters, and infertile itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are infertile and interfile, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling infertile produces exactly one eight-letter word: flintier. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in infertile produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are feltier, fertile, firelit, and niftier, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling infertile turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entire, relief, and tinier. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including relief, feirie and feline.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infertile. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, finer, and flirt. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including finer, flirt and elfin.
Rearranging the letters in infertile produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feel, feet and felt. For points, 27 words tie at 7 points, including feel, feet and felt.
Unscrambling infertile turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee and fit. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including elf, fee and fit.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infertile. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in infertile plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in infertile and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
infertile is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for infertile. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
infertile is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing infertile unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are infertile and interfile, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from infertile earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in infertile produce 186 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.